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<blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3369657" data-attributes="member: 43724"><p>As a field tech for cox I actually endorse this. And no, not because I hate my employer (I actually like my local office, just don't like the turn the company has taken in the last 6-7 years). I actually see how often Cox has to renegotiate contracts with providers. And most of them start out wanting 500-600% increase. That is not a made up number. Not only that, but the contracts won't allow the split up of packages. Now that everything is digital it would be easy to offer individual channels, especially when a lot of them are switch digital channels. What I see is enough people moving to streaming to hit those providers in the pocket books and make them rethink their models. That, or MSO's switching to just broadband. Right now if Cox dropped television programing it would have enough spectrum bandwidth to offer 3 gig download speeds (and yes, be able to provide it). </p><p></p><p>If I didn't work for cox I wouldn't have paid tv service. Between streaming and OTA digital recorders, I could easily provide the wife and I what we want to watch for 10% of what the cable package would cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanis143, post: 3369657, member: 43724"] As a field tech for cox I actually endorse this. And no, not because I hate my employer (I actually like my local office, just don't like the turn the company has taken in the last 6-7 years). I actually see how often Cox has to renegotiate contracts with providers. And most of them start out wanting 500-600% increase. That is not a made up number. Not only that, but the contracts won't allow the split up of packages. Now that everything is digital it would be easy to offer individual channels, especially when a lot of them are switch digital channels. What I see is enough people moving to streaming to hit those providers in the pocket books and make them rethink their models. That, or MSO's switching to just broadband. Right now if Cox dropped television programing it would have enough spectrum bandwidth to offer 3 gig download speeds (and yes, be able to provide it). If I didn't work for cox I wouldn't have paid tv service. Between streaming and OTA digital recorders, I could easily provide the wife and I what we want to watch for 10% of what the cable package would cost. [/QUOTE]
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